Dr. Liao obtained his BSc degree from Sichuan University
in 2006, MSc degree and PhD degree in computational mathematics from the
University of Manchester in 2007 and 2010 respectively, and worked as a postdoc
at University of Maryland College Park (2011 to 2012) and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (2012 to 2015). Dr. Liao joined ShanghaiTech University
in March 2015, and his research is in the area of computational mathematics.